New books about synagogues have recently been published in France, Italy, and Croatia. Each is quite different from the others, looking at synagogues, their history, and their architecture from very different perspectives — popular, scholarly, and artistic. Take a … continue reading →
There are many online conferences and events these pandemic days — but this one looks especially interesting, providing insight and context to a topic that is largely little known: Synagogue architecture in Sweden (and other Nordic countries). The Symposium on … continue reading →
(JHE) — The towns of Sighetul Marmatiei (Sighet) Romania and Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine are sharing an EU grant to rehabilitate selected Jewish heritage sites and promote cross-border Jewish heritage-themed tourism. The EU’s 2014-2020 Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine ENI Cross-border Cooperation Program announced in January it … continue reading →
(JHE) — The first museum on the Iberian Peninsula specifically dedicated to the Shoah has opened in the city of Porto (Oporto), in northern Portugal. Created by the local Jewish community, some of whose members lost family in the Shoah, … continue reading →
(JHE) — The endangered state of a centuries-old synagogue in Diyarbakır province in southeastern Turkey has been raised in the Turkish Parliament. Semra Güzel, an MP of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) from Diyarbakır, raised the issue last month, calling … continue reading →
